St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-25
READY FOR THE SWITCH.
Thirty Teachers Graduate From
the ST. Paul Training School.

1t was nICeen minutes past o CLOCK
last evening when the thirty graduates,
teachers of the training school, Supt.
Taylor and Secretary Dreher, of the
board of education, filed onto the stage
at the high school hall. The hall was
nearly filled with friends of the ''sweet
girls" The stage was handsomely dec
grated with ported and cut flowers. The
graduates, without an exception, wore
the conventional white, with cOrSage
bouquets of roses of different sizes.
Seibert's orchestra played an overture,
after which the first essay of the even
ing, bJ Miss Alice Perry, ON Kinder
garten Methods in Public Schools, +" was
announced. The essayist said:
The kindergarten method is but
scheme. Habits are to be formed early
in life, so the Kindergarten teaches the
child ideas that are to be developed into
thought. The kindergarten emphasizes
the fact that knowledge should find
place in early education. The child
sees hundred phenomena about him
and he is impelled to find out something
about Them" The essay treated of the
different methods of kindergarten teach
ingS, and showed careful study of the
subject. The next essay was by Miss
Emma Gerger. subject physical Gull
ture." The essay was a carefully pre-
that physical culture does not neces-
sarily make a man an athlete
or acrobat. She said: ''Our manu-
factories and business inter
eStS multiply at an unnecessary
expense of physical exertion. The gym
nasiums at the leading college are not
patroniZed by over five per cent. of the
students. The child should develop
strong, firm, well-knit body. Great ex-
ertion in any profession requires
strong, erect form more than the bust
ness of the mechanic" The orchestra
played Army Chaplain" after which
"Study the Mind" She said: s'rhe
teacher works with the mind and there
fore she should understand the capabili-
ties of eacfone. Every mind contains
with itself the necessary requisites for
acquiring and retaining knowledge. The
study of the mind becomes more
necessary when one remembers that
the teacher is the moral
guide of the child. In order to
arouse love of knowledge in the pupil
the teacher must study his taste. The
child should be taught to do whatever
is right because it is right" The next
essayist was Miss Adelaide McCaine.
She chose for her subject, "a Teachers
Duty to Herself" Her voice and style
of delivery were excellent and the
matter showed careful consideration of
a subject which all young teachers
should understand. She said the first
step in action is knowing what to do.
The wood builder needs tools and ma
terial with which to work. Surely the
mental builder needs the same. AS the
work progresses the tools must be
shaped, new tools added and provisions
made for addition. Apprenticeship
means to teacher a training or normal,
school.
After waltz from the ''Gypsy Baron"
the last essayist of the evening, Miss
Lavinia Lamb, delivered her prOduc-
ton. 1t was on the subject, Teaching
Profession" She spoke without man.
uscript, and appeared perfectly at ease.
She opened her subject with definitions
Of the three great professions, medi-
cine, law and theology. There is
another, that of teaching. 1t is not so
much to learn what to teach as how to
teach it. There have been educators
who have been ideals of professional
teaching. The teacher profession isnot
necessarily the most important. EN-
pireS are of little Importance when their
llOidl pOWCI Is ucCdyC Gu. luG DrOIGS-
SlOnS must be united.
SUPERINTENDENT TAYLOR'S ADDRESS.
After a selection by the orchestra,
Superintendent Taylor addressed the
graduates as follows:
Young ladies, congratulate you
upon your success in being able to enlist
yourself in that noble army of
three hundred, which during the
next year is to march on to conquer the
citadel of ignorance. There Will be diff
ficultieS for you to meet and obstacles
to overcome, but energy and persever-
ance will bring you out vietors. You
must not be disappointed if you meet
difficulties. There are pleasures before
you, and you must not be- discouraged.
Teaching is profession, and Oiia of the
nOblest that Gamble entered into in any.
community. Through these difficulties
and over these obstacles, success awaits
you in the future. There are those be-
hind you ready to help. DO not be
discouraged if fault is found, for
fault will be found in any profession.
AS the representative Of the honorable
board Of education l now present you
with your diplomas. The monOtonous
work of distributing the diplomas was
then gone through with and thirty more
$3.50 per year teachers were cast upon
vi uOi oiIh O@AdCttllS nOIlu. luOSG WHO
received diplomas were as follows:
JEANETTE NJ. Bliss, Theresa NJ. Bittrich.
Bessie A. Butler. Cora G. Carel, Anna NJ.
CampiOn, Anna II. Carter, Rose Carroll,
Sadie Dougherty. Emma c. Freeman, Mary
Gill, Emma L. Geiger, Ann S. Graham, Lydia
j. Graham, Bertha de Haas, Mary C. Haw-
thOrne, Carrie s. Krieger, Lavina Lamb Caro-
Ign Mcguire, Adelaide McCaine Helen Cora
Mcleod, Elizabeth Morrow, May a. Nolan,
Alice 1. Perry, Florence Perry, Myrrha
Scheffer, Kate A. Slye, Elizabeth iSliney,
katherine Sliney, Sophia n. Tener,, Lou
Williams.